Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that in response to Andrei Gromyko's offer of quid pro quo for voting in favor of Italy's membership to the U.N., that the other members of the Security Council would vote for admission of Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Finland, the Australian delegate accused Russia of blackmail aimed at forcing the Council to grant membership to Soviet satellites. Deputy U.S. delegate Herschel Johnson stated that he did not believe Hungary could abide its responsibilities under the U.N. Charter, given its mistreatment of opposition leaders. Mr. Gromyko said that Mr. Johnson's statement had distorted the facts, claiming that the U.S. and Britain deviated from the Charter by seeking consideration of membership for Italy separately.

During a press conference, the President had called for voluntary conservation of consumption of food by Americans to improve food prices at home and enable more food to be sent to Europe to offset bad crop news of recent weeks, rendering two million tons less food available than the record amount of exports of the previous year, 14.5 million tons. He advocated increase of exports of food, except for grains. He stressed that much of the conservation could occur in wasting less food.

Eat what is on your plate, little boy and girl, or a little boy and girl in Italy or France will go starving because of YOU.

The President appointed Dr. Vannevar Bush as chairman of the Research & Development Board, part of the new National Defense Establishment. He also completed appointment of assistants in the Department of Air, headed by Stuart Symington of Missouri. General Carl Spaatz was appointed chief of staff of the Department. Arthur Barrows became Undersecretary of Air.

Plans were announced for a new atomic reactor at Oak Ridge, Tenn., at the Clinton Atomic Laboratories operated by Monsanto Chemical Company, which would be several times more powerful than the pile currently operated by the Atomic Energy Commission at Oak Ridge. Fourteen Southern universities, including UNC and Duke, would cooperate with the University of Chicago at the Clinton Laboratories.

Allied Headquarters in Japan reported that flooding north of Tokyo on the Kanto Plain had claimed 1,002 lives and injured 1,616, with 985 missing. Initial reports had estimated 2,000 dead.

HUAC was investigating whether high Government officials had allowed known Communists to enter the U.S. in violation of immigration laws. George Messersmith, former Assistant Secretary of State, while in that role, testified that he had written the American Consul General at Havana in 1939, urging prompt consideration of the application of Hanns Eisler, a German, for residence in the U.S. Mr. Eisler, since becoming a Hollywood songwriter, had testified that he had joined the German Communist Party in 1926 but was never active and was not presently a Communist.

Representative John Rankin of Mississippi, calling the letter a virtual directive for Mr. Eisler to receive a visa, was not interested apparently in whether Mr. Eisler had ever joined any groups such as the Nazis, good red-blooded American organizations. Neither was Representative J. Parnell Thomas of New Jersey, who stated that if Mr. Messersmith could explain his way out of the situation, he was good.

Mr. Messersmith had also forwarded to the Consul a letter from Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles to Eleanor Roosevelt, who had expressed interest in the Eisler case. Mr. Messersmith had first become aware of the Eisler matter through a column written by Dorothy Thompson.

With the beginning this date of ABC-controlled sale of liquor in Mecklenburg County for the first time in nearly 40 years, a front-page editorial asks that the three-man ABC Board strictly enforce the liquor laws, especially those banning bootleg liquor, to assure the success of the two-year experiment.

Darlington County, S.C., schools were set to open October 1 for the beginning of their eight-month school year. Or at least so said the Superintendent.

A Charlotte physician, former president of the Mecklenburg Medical Society and editor of the Journal of Southern Medicine and Surgery, was arrested for illegally selling morphine without prescription during an undercover operation by Federal narcotics inspectors and Charlotte police at a hotel. The doctor had been under investigation since the previous November and responded to a room in the hotel when called by a supposed customer, actually a narcotics inspector, seeking to buy the morphine. The doctor sold $7.50 worth of the drug for $50 to the officers.

A political cartoon in Izvestia depicted General Eisenhower waving an atomic bomb and shouting through a megaphone, labeled "Daily Hearst", that Russia would attack the U.S. A cartoon in Trud showed FDR above a dance labeled "warmongers", asking where America was being led. Among the revelers was Winston Churchill with writer son Randolph on his back. The Weekly Literary Gazette, Communist publication, called Secretary of State Marshall a "Shylock of Wall Street" and the American Legion a warmongering organization.

In Winston-Salem, the water crisis ended as Salem Lake rose to record heights from the previous day's rains, with more than a billion gallons now on hand. The Mayor rescinded emergency water conservation measures.

All it took was a call to the Hollisterians.

Daylight Savings Time would end Sunday. Fall back an hour, as usual. But don't blame us...

On the editorial page, "The Memorials of Old Mecklenburg" tells of various hidden parts of history in the county, such as the tablet on Trade Street memorializing the ride of Captain Jack to Philadelphia in 1775 to deliver the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence to the Continental Congress, or the tablet on Tryon Street marking the spot where Jefferson Davis was standing when he heard the news of the assassination of President Lincoln.

Four large signboards in front of the Courthouse had kept track of the 21,000 men of the county who served during the war. Soon, it might be torn down at the direction of the Hornets Nest American Legion Post which had sponsored it.

But the Gold Star Mothers of the county had begun a campaign to raise $20,000 to establish a memorial for the 600 soldiers of the county killed during the late war. It would be the first such memorial in the county's history.

"The Boo as a Political Weapon" remarks on the booing received from the union members opposing Senator Robert Taft for his co-sponsorship of Taft-Hartley, during his Western speaking tour to test the waters for his viability as a presidential candidate in 1948. It was being used, not as in sports merely to register disapproval, but also to intimidate Republicans that they would not support his candidacy.

"A Taft by Any Other Name" tells of the Young Democrats unanimously selecting Hoover Taft as president of their organization for the coming year. The name alone evoked memories of isolation and economic depression and stood, no doubt, as a warning to Democrats that unless they were to get busy in 1948, the memories thus brought forth might again become a reality—unless Robert Taft were at the head of the Republican ticket, in which case, it ventures, any Democrat could likely win, even the proverbial Chinaman, and that despite the endorsement by Senator Clyde Hoey of Mr. Taft as the best of the Republicans, more likely an accolade given him for the fact that Senator Hoey knew his nomination would work to the Democrats' advantage.

Tom Lynch of The News tells of the ongoing construction of the Morehead Planetarium on the campus of UNC in Chapel Hill, with its $75,000 Zeiss instrument, built to resemble the Hayden Planetarium in New York and the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. While likely to stimulate interest in astronomy and benefit research in the field, he thinks that an observatory might have been of more use, placing the institution on the level with Harvard, the University of Michigan, the University of California, the University of Chicago, and other such universities.

While putting the cart before the horse, or Auriga before Pegasus as it were, it would be the first university to have a planetarium, and so there was no need to look a gift horse in the mouth.

The Mercury astronauts, beginning in 1959, would undertake their celestial navigational training at the Planetarium, as would subsequent astronauts in the Gemini and Apollo programs, through 1975. Thus, we assume, the safe return of Apollo 13, commanded by astronaut James Lovell, might be ascribed, at least in part, to the training received at Morehead.

A piece from the Washington Post, titled "Bipartisan Call to Congress", opines that the President ought take the lead in calling for a special session of Congress to enable emergency legislation to avoid disaster in Europe. Bipartisan support of the foreign policy should be the order of the day, rather than partisan politics, with such high stakes in the offing abroad.

Drew Pearson tells of how the AFL planned to spend the two million dollars to be allotted to fund its new PAC, designed to defeat members of Congress who had voted for Taft-Hartley, while not violating the provision of the Act which prevented politicking by unions. They would use the money for "educational programs" to show the strides labor had made under the Wagner Act, and to sponsor speakers in every district in which a pro-Taft-Hartley Congressman was running, financed by contributions of the audience present at each meeting.

Marquis Childs, in Athens, finds that Greece stood as living example that the Russian charges that the U.S. sought domination of the country were absurd. To the contrary, a handicap in administering the aid program was the U.S. reluctance to take the lead in disentangling the Greek political morass. The Greek politicians, prepared to relax and enjoy the disentanglement process, were puzzled and perhaps irritated by the American reluctance to do so. They complained that American aid admnistrator Dwight Griswold did not tell them what to do.

Samuel Grafton looks at the life of Fiorello La Guardia and wonders whether his memory might establish a new type of American politician and personality, quite apart from the laconic New England farmer, celebrated in the country since its founding, or the hearty Texan, another type popular for a century, or the Southern gentleman.

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